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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:05:16 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Kubuntu loses Canonical funding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531

said by Jonathan Riddell :Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well.
I haven't used Kubuntu regularly for years mostly because of the Canonical inspired changes that weren't actually Jonathan's (stupid menu thing to match the gnome desktop) and other non kde things added just to match the gnome version but even so it was a good easy install of KDE with a lot of update software to go along with it.

It probably also means it might be a harder road forward for KDE on Ubuntu if they make changes to their core system to support whatever they build their own desktop environment into. I also wonder if they didn't want the internal competition going forward on the mobile front since Plasma Active would be easy to use with their ARM spins.

Last note, there would be no Kubuntu if it wasn't for Jonathan himself. He drove it from the very beginning and was able to get the support he got from Canonical to let those first breaths advance on to what it became with a team from the community supporting him along the way.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 00:20:00</pubDate>
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<title>Using sed to search and replace</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to get this sed command to work, but it keeps giving me an error.

I'm searching for www.example.com and replacing it with www.$DOMAIN

sudo sed -i "s/www\.example\.com/www\.$DOMAIN" /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN

Thanks,
Mark

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<pubDate>2012-02-08 02:24:53</pubDate>
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<title>ddrescue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm running DDRescue on a drive and it's been going for 24 hours now it says last successful read was 14 hours ago, it's copied 1.1 TB of data so far. It's a 1.5 TB Drive with about 1.3TB formatted. How long should DDRescue take and will it eventually just finish? 

I'm curious as to how long i should expect on average for it to take and at what point do I know it's done? I'm using 

ddrescue /dev/sdb /dev/sda drive11.log -r -1 --force

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Edit: I just got this error Write failed: Broken pipe.
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<pubDate>2012-02-06 21:26:09</pubDate>
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<title>This might actually get me to buy a Tablet...</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26855044</link>
<description><![CDATA[http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/74333.html

 quote:Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd

The recently announced Spark tablet might prove to be the first Linux-running open source tablet fully capable of being modded by users.

It has an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware, and it will come with an open content and services market.

The Spark will come under the GNU General Public License (GPL) from its inception.

Pricing will be about US$265, according to KDE developer Aaron Seigo. The Spark will be offered as a device made for customization and project-specific integration

...snip...

The Spark has two USB ports, a microSD slot, a 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7-inch multitouch capacitive resistor screen with 800 by 480 resolution, WiFi and a 1.3 MP front-facing webcam.

It's based on a 1 GHz AMLogic ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY) Cortex-A9 CPU, and it has a Mali 400 graphics processing unit, 512 MB of RAM and 4GB of storage.

Users are free to modify the device as they see fit.

The Spark runs Mer, which was built to provide a free alternative to the Maemo OS. It was based on Ubuntu 9.04.

Mer was abandoned in favor of Meego but was revived in 2011 after Nokia (NYSE: NOK) walked out of its partnership with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), abandoning Meego.

The Spark uses the KDE Plasma Active user interface. It will also link up to OwnCloud open source hosting services, the Kolab groupware solution and Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE.

"What's really being promoted here is Plasma Active 2, which is an application development framework built on top of Linux and one of the variants is Meego," Orr stated.

Current plans are to begin shipping the device in May.

...snip...



This strikes me as a decent functional alternative to Android and iPad that I could really get behind as a user.  Something that's truly open source.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 21:26:58</pubDate>
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<title>ITC Lawyer: Barnes &#x26;amp; Noble Didn&#x27;t Infringe MS Patents</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26865149</link>
<description><![CDATA[Re: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26527889-Barnes-Noble-Wants-DOJ-Probe-Re-Microsoft-Patent-Tactics

Some Really Good News for Barnes & Noble; and Microsoft Withdraws Another Patent by pj - February 07 2012:
The big news being reported by Bloomberg* is that Jeff Hsu, a staff attorney at the ITC, said in an interview he will be recommending that ITC Judge Theodore Essex find Barnes & Noble has not infringed three Microsoft patents. Essex rules in April [April 27, 2012]on that.

If I were a FUDster, I'd write that this means Barnes & Noble has prevailed, but I just tell you the truth, which is that this is one step in a longer process. It is, undeniably, however, fabulously good news for Barnes & Noble.

It is also not a total surprise, in that the quality of Microsoft's patents is pitiful. It may also explain why Microsoft keeps dropping patents from the case. Microsoft says it's doing it to "streamline the investigation"...

Microsoft typically does not allow cases to reach a final decision if it thinks it might lose. That way, the claims live to fight against the next victim, I guess. So what I believe is that it is dropping the '522 patent because it's a stupid patent that won't survive a close examination, but it might come in handy in private negotiations over a license if folks aren't paying close attention or who'd just rather pay than be sued. * said by Bloomberg :The case is part of a strategy by Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft to push Barnes & Noble into paying patent royalties for the Nook, which runs on Google Inc.&#146;s Android operating system. Microsoft claims all Android devices use its technology and has said it collects fees on 70 percent of Android smartphones in the U.S.

Barnes & Noble has refused to pay Microsoft and complained to the government about its adversary&#146;s tactics. Microsoft "uses these patents to demand that every manufacturer of an Android-based mobile device take a license from Microsoft and pay exorbitant licensing fees," Barnes & Noble said in a trade commission filing.

Essex has thrown out the patent misuse claim, leaving only the question of whether the patents are valid and have been infringed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 15:20:16</pubDate>
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<title>NAS - can&#x27;t decide</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26826165</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm shopping for new NAS for small office.
I've narrowed it down to two
- QNAP TS-439 PRO II+ http://www.qnap.com/USEng/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=179
or
- Synology DS411+II http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS411%2BII&lang=us

Both are the same price and both have pretty much the same specs and features. Both seem to be well supported too.

Any real life experiences with either of these?
Any real life pros & cons?

...much appreciated]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-28 21:39:12</pubDate>
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<title>advice for the lovelorn</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26825327</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dear friends,

With absolutely no law or politics involved, opinions on the following issue:

given amd's release yesterday of the latest fglrx driver which claims to allow compatilbility with switcheroo

given my lack of gaming but absolute need for clear, crsip graphics and use of the laptop as my sole source of anything whatsoever in life 

given a three year future proof(I mean the laptop, I shall unlikely last that long)

given the neurotic once a week recompile(which, like smoking, may kill)

Is it then better to go with an all amd setup, A8 chip and 7690 gpu for the little video editing I do, watching auditions of kids who I will never hire, and researching law to rant my bigoted opinions here, or stay within the i7 family for the superior processing power, even better (2g) gpu and hope to deal with the dual graphics card issue with the sandybitch chip?

In other words, given my lack of need to code or game, can I make do without the hassle of the modern intel chips, or will I regret not doing the many workarounds on the web and spending the time playing with the issues a year down the road when the average internet site swallows allthe gpu memory just to advertise potato crisps and porn?

Any ideas, or a simple statement that the issue has been relatively solved will make my day happy, and I shall avoid lengthy missives for a few weeks....

Best,
M
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<pubDate>2012-01-28 16:30:00</pubDate>
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<title>Speech Synthesis GI SP0256-AL-2 Emulator</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26877286</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am looking for something that does speech synthesis to emulate the old General Instruments chips SP0256-AL2 and the CT256 phoeme ROM.

Something that would emulate this for Linux would be great, I am not after the natural speech stuff, thats nice and cute that its evolved to that level. 

I had built several of these in years past, ok decades past for things, but don't think they survived the numerous moves .

Anything to emulate this on Linux? Something in a DEB or PPA for *buntu based derivatives? KDE would be great for any GUI, so long as its not mono infested, thats fine.  If it can be sent commands to talk via BASH script that would be an even bigger plus.

Anything like this?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-10 11:15:09</pubDate>
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<title>ubuntu 11.10 sound effects</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26867721</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a way to control other sound effects like opening & closing windows?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 06:29:42</pubDate>
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<title>MPE FTP error code translation?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26794311</link>
<description><![CDATA[For the life of me, I can't find out what FTPLASTERR = 3473608 means. It originated from an HP e3000 system which failed to connect to a Windows FTP server.

Thoughts?
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<pubDate>2012-01-20 19:23:32</pubDate>
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<title>February Desktop Thread</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26840731</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kubuntu 11.10.  KDE 4.8.

I know, Zzzzzzzz.... Boring]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-01 15:54:06</pubDate>
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<title>Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26843511</link>
<description><![CDATA[ quote:Wayland advancements as of late have been going at an extremely steadfast manner from multi-touch support to handling surface transformations with input redirection. Just yesterday I mentioned how Wayland is almost ready for showing off now that the display server is becoming useful and the toolkits (GTK+, Qt, EFL, Clutter, SDL) and other components built upon it and Weston, its reference compositor, are actually functioning. (Speaking of the rapid pace of development, an initial implementation of "weston-launch" was published... I'll save those interesting details for another article.) 

...

With the 1.0 release of Wayland and Weston, the developers will be maintaining the Wayland core protocol and library APIs as stable. "We're getting ready to do a 1.0 release, which marks a point where the core Wayland protocol and library APIs are going to be stable. It used to be that you would have to compile a special KMS pageflip kernel, a custom mesa branch and my standalone, halfbaked EGL library. Today, everything is upstream and we're working on closing the gaps in toolkit support."
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 08:49:56</pubDate>
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<title>Weird problem this morning (Ubuntu)</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26856902</link>
<description><![CDATA[Last night, I was running Ubuntu and everything was fine. I shut the system down, normally.

This morning, I booted up and had no network. Absolutely dead. I have a dual boot system and, when I booted Arch, it was fine. Back to Ubuntu, still nothing.

I was in sort of a time crunch because I had to go to church. After lunch, I was trying to fix my network, and I discovered that the /home filesystem was not mounted. So, I fsck'ed it, which fixed a couple of orphaned inodes, but it didn't look like a big deal. I rebooted again and now everything is back to normal.

Is there anything else I should do, or can I feel comfortable that it is fixed?

Thanks,
Tim
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 ~ Project Hope ~ ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-05 15:18:21</pubDate>
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<title>gnomes and other fairies</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26849788</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,

So, laptop has arrived.

Good news is that all the tech stuff I can handle easily.

Really awful, dreadful, depressing, and otherwise not good is debian using gnome 3.

Why, you ask, or don't would I think that debian would use gnome three?

Because in order to apt away the troubled world with all the latest cool stuff, the deps pull up a desktop that is irritating to say the least.

So, in order to decide "which distro, please" which would anger many of you here, I am going to try to ask a more politely phrased, which is to say rudely circumlocuted, version of the same.

Mint seem to have held on to the last vestige of a real gnome, while the deb wheezy folks have not.  However,  my experience with Min has been that, although I have managed to hang on to the original install for almost two years, getting deps resolved to install latest flash, chrome, and so on, has not been aptly accomplished.  Thus,  the question here is,  looking at the current desktop(oobviously ignoring background and such nonsense) can I get the extreme one-click functionality of all the shit I have in the gnome panels placed exactly as I have it now, were I to chose a gnome 3 distro?  I am aware that fallback mode will grant some of this,  but I love the panels,  and the lack of need to use the menu.

If this were doable, then debian is fine.  

I hate desktops, by the way, with visual effects.  As one may gather, I tend rather to be a verbal type. ;)
file:///home/martin/Desktop/Screenshot.png

Best to all,

M
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 12:57:19</pubDate>
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<title>Reading a Mac drive</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26853429</link>
<description><![CDATA[I figured there might be a Linux solution to a friend's problem.  He wants to read/grab data from a Mac hard disk, someone else's, as a favor.  He's not a Mac (or Linux) person and I don't have a Mac disk to test it.  He mentioned a possible Windows solution that he didn't sound excited about.

I did a quick study and the format is likely HFS+.

I was hoping a Live CD just might auto-mount a Mac drive but I don't think so.  My guess is it would take installing a package like hfsplus and some CLI (just mount?) to get it working.

He's very techy but I wonder how bad it is to mount a Mac drive this way?

More info?  Suggestions?  Thoughts?  TIA]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 12:18:04</pubDate>
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<title>Firefox version on Ubuntu</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26819797</link>
<description><![CDATA[Querstion: when is Ubuntu going to update and release a new version of Firefox?  I have version 3.6.24 and Firefox 10 is about to come out!.  My Ubuntu is "lucid" -- "Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS".

Thanks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-27 09:49:42</pubDate>
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<title>Unity: Intrusive &#x26;amp; Nightmare To Maintain / Compiz Dead?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26853292</link>
<description><![CDATA[From Phoronix:
Along with the discussion around a rolling-release version of Fedora Linux, having been discussed recently has been the possibility of providing Ubuntu's Unity desktop as an alternative desktop environment for Fedora.

Running proper Unity in Fedora is also made more challenging by the Fedora plans to drop Compiz. [It's also been brought up in the forums that Gentoo is also doing away with Compiz.]

Nelson Marques jumped on the list having worked on the initial Unity support within the openSUSE project to provide a few words. In the email he basically explains that Unity isn't an option now for openSUSE and never really made it too far.

Nelson Marques ended his message to the Fedora developers with, "My personal stance is that the patch level from Unity is very intrusive and it's a nightmare to maintain. I wish the best of luck for Fedora in such achievement."More:
Is Compiz On Its Deathbed?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 11:26:10</pubDate>
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<title>Potential nVidia Optimus support blocked by kernel politics</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26816552</link>
<description><![CDATA[Again...

 quote:While there's been some rudimentary Optimus hacks for Linux to use notebooks that offer an integrated graphics processor and a discrete GPU (to offer maximum performance when needed but to fall-back to only powering the IGP when in a low-power mode), NVIDIA Corp hasn't provided any official Optimus support under Linux. Now there's talk of possible support, but it's potentially to be blocked by Linux kernel developers. 

Robert Morell, a long-time NVIDIA Linux engineer who's worked on the Tegra support and other areas of NVIDIA graphics, requested a kernel change (and provided a patch). He's requested that the DMA-BUF symbols be exported without the GPL license attached. This would allow DMA-BUF to be used within the binary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver, the AMD Catalyst driver, and other binary graphics drivers (i.e. many ARM SoCs), etc. This was done to the mailing list last week.
NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux
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<pubDate>2012-01-26 14:05:49</pubDate>
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<title>Dell Bios update</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26834368</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a Dell XPS One 
service tag :CS8JDD1
https://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

It's running Linux Mint DE. I'm wondering if there is a way to do a BIOS update from Linux. Spinrite won't run because of a BIOS flaw, and I'm hoping that the latest BIOS will solve it.
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<pubDate>2012-01-31 10:53:28</pubDate>
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<title>A terminal/ssh client with &#x22;command&#x22; shortcut buttons?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26844397</link>
<description><![CDATA[I know that SecureCRT finally offers a linux client but I can't upgrade to that version (Licensed for 5.7)

So I am looking for a free or cheap alternative terminal/ssh client for Ubuntu 11.04 that has a floating button bar that allows me to define frequently used commands that I can program.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 11:36:15</pubDate>
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